Operation Ranch Hand sprays Agent Orange
1962–1971 · Event
For nine years American aircraft spray twenty million gallons of herbicide over Vietnam's forests and crops to strip the enemy's cover — a fifth of South Vietnam's jungle. The dioxin in Agent Orange goes on killing for generations, in Vietnamese villages and American veterans' hospitals alike.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Master, USA
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- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- North Vietnam's final offensive (1975)
- The Ho Chi Minh trail (1959)
- US ground war begins at Da Nang (1965)
- Cronkite calls the war a stalemate (1968)
Around 1962
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)